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Tip of the Week: Creating simple websites - No experience necessary!
Not everyone needs a website that looks like it was created on Madison Avenue and not everyone has a budget to hire even a low cost web developer to create a web presence for their company or organization. If all you need is a simple "brochure" or "business card" site, you may want to take a look at what Google is cooking up in their labs.
Google's Page Creator project is a free online tool (that's still in the testing phase) that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish simple websites in a matter of minutes. If you want to take it for a test drive, go to: pages.google.com (a Google account is required for use, but they are free also!)
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Headwhack of the Week: Human assistance in searching for information
If you have been a subscriber to this newsletter or a listener of your radio show, you know how much we LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Google, but sometimes it would just be a little less frustrating to have a human help you search for stuff on the Internet.
The next time you can't seem to find something on your own through Google, ask the helpful cybernauts at www.chacha.com to give you a hand. When you submit a question via the web or your cell phone, a human guide will attempt to find the information you seek for you (and it's FREE!)
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Geek Speak of the Week: Wikidemia
An academic article passed off as intellectual thought, but actually plagiarized entirely from Wikipedia.
The Internet is raising a whole generation of students that excel in Wikidemia.
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Security: U.S. reveals plans to hit back at cyberthreats
The U.S. Air Force Cyber Command is developing capabilities to inflict denial of service, confidential data loss, data manipulation, and system integrity loss on its adversaries, and to combine these with physical attacks, according to a senior U.S. general.
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News: Picking the Perfect Smartphone
The days of the simple "dumb" phone seems to be numbered based on all of the new "smart" phones that are hitting the market. What used to be only in the realm of the business professional is quickly becoming the status quo for the average cell phone user. But if you are taking your first step into the SmartPhone world, how do you know what the difference is between the Blackberry, Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile based systems?
See if this PC Magazine roundup of the major platforms and phones helps!
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News: Microsoft will extend life for Windows XP - again!
Gosh...who saw this coming? The world is taking to Windows Vista like a chocolate covered Brussels sprout and Microsoft continues to be in a quandary with the legions of Windows XP faithful. Computer makers will be able to sell XP Home on new "ultra-low-cost PCs" through June 30, 2010, or one year after the launch of Windows 7, the next major release of Windows, whichever is later, Microsoft said this week. (This won't be the last announcement of this type, in our opinion!)
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Data Doctors Video on Cnn.com: Online language translators
If you spend any time online in forums, online gaming or just about any form of interaction these days, you are bound to run into others that don't speak your language. When you really want to get a sense of what is being said in another language, one of the many free online translators may fit the bill! (The advice column with the links for this segment is located here.)
Watch the video and help our rankings on CNN.com! You can watch us live every Saturday morning at 9:30AM Pacific, 12:30PM Eastern or watch the archived versions of our segments whenever you want at CNN.com/video.
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Opinion: Onerous New Law to Phase Out Wi-Fi
John C. Dvorak of PCmag.com: "You'll never guess what our clueless Congress has up its sleeve this time: an attack on the free 802.11x wireless spectrums."
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Weekly Advice Column: What's that grinding sound in my computer?
This week's advice column answers Tom's question: My computer is making strange grinding sounds, but not all the time. There is no rhyme or reason to when the noise occurs, it just seems to go in and out on its own. What can this be and what should I do?
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This Week's Show: Signs of a computer meltdown
Imagine how expensive all your car repairs would be if you always drove your car until it broke down! Unfortunately, that's the approach most computer users take with their systems; drive it till it crashes!
When you hear strange noises or get warning lights on your car, you typically have someone check it out and if you start doing that with your computer, you will be much more likely to catch a problem before it turns into a major disaster.
The problem for most users is that they don't know what to watch for...
Join us Saturdays from 12:00PM–2:00PM (Mountain) on News 92.3 KTAR or listen LIVE via the Internet at KTAR.com as we discuss your computer questions at: 602.277.5827 or ask your questions during (or before) the broadcast using the ask a question page.
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